Tomcat Not reading Spring-Boot Application Properties

I'm fairly new to spring/java and have been checking out spring-boot for a project I have at work. I've been following guides and finally have a (semi) working web app MVC + JPA for data access. Everything works when I deploy the app via the Jar method :

java -jar build/libs/client.jar

However, our application is eventually going to be deployed to Tomcat (v7.0.40) so I need to create a war file from the project. I've followed the converting jars to war's guide on the spring.io site and have run into a problem. It appears that it is not loading up the application.properties file. Here are the important code snippets:

As I said, it works when I run it via a jar, but does not work when I deploy it to Tomcat. I also looked inside

$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/client/WEB-INF/classes

and I see the

application.properties

file. So I think that it should be on the classpath. My question is, why isn't tomcat loading it? I've tried searching all over and no one else seems to be having this problem so I'm not sure if its just something I have incorrectly configured, or what.